And, in , Van Horn led a team that combined CT scans of Gage's skull with MRI scans of typical brains to show how the wiring of Gage's brain could have been affected. And it's not just researchers who keep coming back to Gage. Medical and psychology students still learn his story. And neurosurgeons and neurologists still sometimes reference Gage when assessing certain patients, Van Horn says.
There is something about Gage that most people don't know, Macmillan says. Gage went on to work as a long-distance stagecoach driver in Chile, a job that required considerable planning skills and focus, Macmillan says. This chapter of Gage's life offers a powerful message for present day patients, he says. Gage lived for a dozen years after his accident.
But ultimately, the brain damage he'd sustained probably led to his death. He died on May 21, , of an epileptic seizure that was almost certainly related to his brain injury.
However, although Phineas had a varied employment history, he did hold a number of responsible positions during it. According to Dr. In about , after his health began to fail, he went to San Francisco to live with his family who had moved there from Lebanon NH at the beginning of the gold-rush.
After Phineas regained his health he was anxious to work and found it on a farm in Santa Clara County, south of San Francisco. In February , he began to have epileptic seizures and, as we know from the Funeral Director's and cemetery interment records, he was buried on 23rd May Although Harlow gives the year as , the records show conclusively that it was Here, as elsewhere I have silently corrected Harlow's dates. This is the bar that was shot through the head of Mr. Phinehas P.
Gage at Cavendish, Vermont, Sept. Warren Anatomical Museum records discovered by Dominic Hall of the Countway Library since my book was published show that Phineas himself originally deposited the tamping iron in the Harvard Medical School Museum and asked for it to be returned in It also means that the tamping iron could not have been, as Dr. What I have summarised is almost all of what Harlow tells us about Phineas Gage.
The slightness of what he tells us seems to have encouraged the attribution to Gage of all sorts of fabulous psychological characteristics and an equally fabulous post-accident history. This is not surprising given that neither the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Medical Society nor Harlow's pamphlet version of his address are held in many of the world's libraries. Most of the accounts of Gage's life after are strange mixtures of slight fact, considerable fancy and downright fabrication.
These remarks are frequently elaborated into a Gage who drifts around aimlessly and is not interested in working or, if interested, is incapable of holding a job. During the same period, Phineas is often pictured as exhibiting himself, usually as a freak, in circuses or fairgrounds around the country. Science, , Harlow J. Passage of an iron rod through the head. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 39 , — Harlow, J. Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar through the Head.
Publications of the Massachusetts Medical Society. Kao, Y. Journal of clinical medicine, 8 2 , Nasrabady, S. Acta neuropathologica communications, 6 1 , Ratiu, P. The tale of Phineas Gage, digitally remastered.
Journal of neurotrauma, 21 5 , Van Horn, J. Mapping connectivity damage in the case of Phineas Gage. PloS one, 7 5 , e Toggle navigation. Gage suffered a severe brain injury from an iron rod penetrating his skull, of which he miraculously survived.
The frontal lobes are the seat of the neural networks that determine our personalities — problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, directed movement, judgement, impulse control, and social and sexual behavior. How to reference this article: How to reference this article: Guy-Evans, O.
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